Tag Archives: The Naked and Famous

New Zealand indie digital ensemble the Naked and Famous help to make traveling, melodic pop with an ’80s post-punk influence. Focused around the skills of vocalist Alisa Xayalith and instrumentalist/vocalist Thom Forces, the band shaped in 2008 and released two EPs before adding people to try out live. This year …

Indie digital duo the Limousines help to make atmospheric, dancy ’80s synth and ’90s shoegaze-influenced pop. Created in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA in 2007, the duo features the skills of multi-instrumentalist Giovanni Giusti and vocalist/songwriter Eric Victorino. Collaborating over e-mails and via the web, the Limousines started posting tracks on-line …

Australian quartet Last Dinosaurs deliver a sound that harks back again to the rhythmic 2000s indie of bands like Phoenix, the Kooks, and Two Door Movie theater Club, serving razor-sharp and refined dance-rock. The music group created in 2007 while frontman Sean Caskey and drummer Dan Koyama had been still …

Merging sugary hooks using a loud, rhythmic crunch, Sleigh Bells’ experimental pop may be the task of songwriter/producer Derek Miller and vocalist Alexis Krauss. The music artists produced the group in NY in 2008, where Miller (a Florida indigenous and onetime person in hardcore respond Poison the Well) acquired relocated …